Francis Galton

Memories of My Life (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Memories of my Life, first published in 1908, is an autobiography by the psychologist, anthropologist, geographer, and inventor Sir Francis Galton. This book contains a detailed account of Galton's life, and will be of interest to students of Victorian history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317433989
• Artikelnr.: 43437089

Autorenporträt

Among his many significant accomplishments, British scientist SIR FRANCIS GALTON (1822-1911) was an explorer, a geographer, a statistician, and inventor of fingerprint identification. In addition to more than 300 scientific papers, he wrote the books Hereditary Genius (1914), Finger Prints (1893), Memories of My Life (1908), and others.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Parentage 2. Childhood and Boyhood 3. Medical Studies 4. Short Tour to
the East 5. Cambridge 6. Egypt and the Soudan 7. Syria 8. Hunting and
Shooting 9. South-West Africa 10. Lands of the Damaras, Ovampo, and
Namaquas 11. After Return Home - Marriage 12. "Art of Travel" 13. Social
Life 14. Geography and East Africa 15. British Association 16. Kew
Observatory and Meteorology 17. Anthropometric Laboratories 18. Composite
Portraits and Stereoscopic Maps 19. Human Faculty 20. Heredity 21. Race
Improvement; Appendix; Principle Awards and Degrees; Index